The Accomplished Tutor; Or, Complete System of Liberal Education:: Containing the Most Improved Theory and Practice of the Following Subjects: 1. English Grammar, and Elocution. 2. Penmanship, and Short Hand. 3. Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal ... 18. Drawing, Engraving, and Painting. And Other Useful Matter. Embellished with Twenty Copper-plates and Six Maps, Neatly Engraved, Volume 1H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row; and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry., 1806 - Arithmetic - 458 pages Systematized information on many subjects, appropriate for self-instruction. |
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... some Countries of India . But the noble and fublime difcovery of an alphabet of letters fuperfeded every other improvement its this art . Who was the first in this invention is uncertain . An alphabet of letters was , however , brought ...
... some Countries of India . But the noble and fublime difcovery of an alphabet of letters fuperfeded every other improvement its this art . Who was the first in this invention is uncertain . An alphabet of letters was , however , brought ...
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... WHEN mankind had arrived at some perfection in the art of writing , they foon difcovered the propriety of reducing language S language into different forms of words ; or , as OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR . Of Syllables Of the Nine Parts of Speech.
... WHEN mankind had arrived at some perfection in the art of writing , they foon difcovered the propriety of reducing language S language into different forms of words ; or , as OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR . Of Syllables Of the Nine Parts of Speech.
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... Some change the f intov : as , wife , wives ; leaf , leaves . Some plurals end in en : as , ox , oxen ; child , children ; man , men ; brother , brethren . In the latter , and fome others , the in the first fyllable is changed into e ...
... Some change the f intov : as , wife , wives ; leaf , leaves . Some plurals end in en : as , ox , oxen ; child , children ; man , men ; brother , brethren . In the latter , and fome others , the in the first fyllable is changed into e ...
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... Some of the auxiliaries vary their import according to the person with which they are joined ; thus will , in the first per- fon , both fingular and plural , promises or threatens ; in the fecond and third perfons only foretels : hall ...
... Some of the auxiliaries vary their import according to the person with which they are joined ; thus will , in the first per- fon , both fingular and plural , promises or threatens ; in the fecond and third perfons only foretels : hall ...
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... Some verbs that end in ve , befides the contraction , change the ve into ƒ : as , bereave , bereft ; leave , left . Moft contracted verbs have the entire as well as the con- tracted form ; and the entire form is always to be preferred ...
... Some verbs that end in ve , befides the contraction , change the ve into ƒ : as , bereave , bereft ; leave , left . Moft contracted verbs have the entire as well as the con- tracted form ; and the entire form is always to be preferred ...
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adjective adverb againſt alfo alſo angle anſwer caſe characters confifts confonants convex lens decimal denomination diſtance divided dividend divifion divifor Engliſh equal Example exprefs faid fame manner farthings fecond feen feet fenfe fentence feven fhall fhillings fhould fide figure fimple fingle fingular firft firſt folid fome fometimes foregoing fpeaker fquare fraction ftands fubftantive fubject fubtracted fuch gallons given number glafs glaſs inches inftrument intereft interfections laft laſt learner lefs lens letters meaſure microſcope mirror mode moft moſt muft multiply muſt neceffary neuter nominative cafe noun obferved objective cafe oppofite paffing participle paſt pence perfon perpendicular placed pleaſe plural pofition pounds prefent prepofition pronoun purpoſe queſtion quotient rays repreſented rule of three ſeen ſmall ſtands ſtation teleſcope thefe theſe third perfon thofe thoſe thou thouſand trapeziums triangle uſed verb vowel Vulgar Fractions whofe whoſe words yards
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Page 66 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
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Page 65 - Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
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